Examples

In Ile-Rien (or, at least, in Vienne) homosexuality seems to be not exactly mainstream, but tolerated -- Morane's blackmailing incident seems to have been more about the young man's simultaneous engagement to a woman than about the existence of the affair entirely (unless I'm viewing it wrong), and Nicholas's not-entirely-unreceptive attitude to Morane indicates that it wasn't actively abhorrent on principle, at the least (unless, again, that's just Nicholas) -- so, it seems, attitudes are roughly similar to more tolerant European cultures of the analagous time period.

Then it was that Vienne was called Vienne the Holy -- because, while losing nothing of her splendours temporal, she gained great store of splendours spiritual: whereof the culmination was that famous Council, at the beginning of the fourteenth century, which crushed the Templars and gave over their possessions to the Crown.

When at last they did come, the Romans transformed the town into a great city -- the metropolis of the region lying between Geneva and Marseille; and so adorned it with noble buildings -- temples, forum, circus, theatre, aqueducts, baths -- and so enriched it with all manner of works of art, that it came to be known as Vienne the Beautiful throughout the civilized world.

Vienne, which is mentioned by several of the Roman historians under its present name, was the capital of the Allobroges, and I looked upon it with a new and strange interest, on calling to mind my school-boy days, when I had become familiar with that war-like race, in toiling over the pages of Cæsar.

L'Isle-Jourdain, France -- No, not much has happened or is happening in this tiny, sleepy, French town -- some might call it a village -- nestled in the Vienne River valley in central France that would warrant a "dateline."